Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What is important, in this case, is the light, or rather shadow, that Hart's presence throws on the Free Enterprise Society. His views have been consistently expressed for many years, certainly since 1930, when he founded the National Economic Council, an organization which now publishes a semi-monthly newsletter devoted to such interesting considerations as a warning to every citizen to "possess himself of one or more guns, making sure that they are in good condition, that he and other members of his family know how to use them, and that he has a reasonable supply of ammunition." This...
...Shadow & Substance
...Nijinsky's blurred mind. He was allowed to leave his secluded asylum in Switzerland, lived privately for a time in his wife's native Hungary. He had begun to recognize friends. Then came war, and the sound of bombs sent him cowering back into his world of shadow. The Russians found him in Hungary, put him up in the best hotel in Vienna, gave him a box at the ballet. The Russians assured Romola that Nijinsky would be welcomed in Russia as a hero of the Soviet Union. Once they got him drunk, and Nijinsky danced for them...
...once told the alumni (paraphrasing "Bloody Mary") that if they opened him they would find "Columbia" written on his heart. Two years ago, he reluctantly surrendered the presidency he had held for 44 years.* Last week Nicholas Murray Butler, 85, and blind for the past year, died in the shadow of the great campus he had built on Morningside Heights...
...live off the land (fried snakes for Christmas dinner), but also how to make life a merry hell for the horse thieves. With feet bound in leaves, to make no tracks, the children do the villains out of their horses, their boots, their food, their water; they shadow their prey pitilessly in their effort to get out of the wilderness...